(August 24, 2018 at 6:39 am)negatio Wrote:You're welcome. One more suggestion. Add a blank line between individual paragraphs. It may seem a tiny point, but it has a dramatic effect on the readability and comprehensibility of your text. Thus...Quote:Wrong. The problem is not language, the problem is that you insisted upon presenting your thoughts in such a comprehensively garbled fashion that they were totally unreadable.Thanks a million Abaddon__Ire, for slapping the piss out of me to the point which my head cleared, and, thereby, I have done it, thusly:
Quote:An Important Ramification of Spinoza's Dictum is Disproof of the Deity of Yahweh, Jehovah, and Jesus Christ.
Spinoza's dictum is "determinatio negatio est", i.e., "determination is negation", and, is the central concept by which, within seven paragraphs, it can be shown that Yahweh, Jehovah, and Jesus Christ, are not, cannot be, deities.
The type of determination being considered here is human determination to act, and, precisely what is being considered is how human action originates at its source, the source being human consciousness.
Several thinkers have employed, slightly modified, and based their systems of thought upon the Spinozistic dictum. Hegel modified it to "All determination is negation." Then, Sartre, using the Hegelian modification, based his entire magnum opus, "Being and Nothingness", 1943, upon the dictum. One can go as far as to say that every sentence in Sartre's eight hundred plus page work, entails Spinoza's dictum.
Hegel proclaimed the dictum to contain infinite riches; and, as part of the mining of those infinite riches, Sartre realized something which he based upon the dictum, and which precisely describes how human action actually originates by consciousness. What Sartre named the "double nihilation" is a theoretical structure which traces the particular movement of consciousness which constitutes a human act; being, of course a compound or double movement.
And so forth.